Is it necessary to eat rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival? The meaning of Zongzi
Zongzi symbolizes the Dragon Boat Festival. Whenever we talk about zongzi, everyone will think of the Dragon Boat Festival. So, is it necessary to eat rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival? What does zongzi represent? Midsummer is the time when pomegranate flowers are bright in May and fruits can be seen on the branches. If you want to know more about the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 2019, please pay attention to Mr. Shui Mo's website!Is it necessary to eat rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival?You don’t have to eat rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival.According to experts, zongzi is just an ordinary folk food, and it was not originally eaten on the Dragon Boat Festival. The idea that eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan is a fabrication by later generations and only reflects the wishes of the people. In fact, eating rice dumplings on the Cold Food Festival (the day before Qingming Festival), which was formed as a folk festival to commemorate Jie Zitui of the State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period, originated earlier than eating rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival. To this day, the folk custom of eating rice dumplings on the day before and during Qingming Festival is still practiced in many places. According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, millet was wrapped in cattail leaves (茭白叶) into the shape of ox horns, which was called "horn millet"; rice was packed in bamboo tubes, sealed and baked, which was called "tube zong". At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, millet was soaked in water with wood ash. Because the water contained alkali, millet was wrapped in cattail leaves into a square shape and cooked, which became the Guangdong alkaline water zong. Therefore, eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival is just a way of celebrating the festival. Although rice dumplings can be eaten as medicinal food, they are made with glutinous rice, which is not easy to digest. Therefore, people with poor gastrointestinal digestion function should not eat too much. The meaning of ZongziThe small rice dumplings have the following meanings.1. Commemorating Qu Yuan <br /> Legend has it that in 340 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and minister of the State of Chu, faced the pain of losing his country. On May 5th, he threw himself into the Miluo River with a large stone in his arms in anger. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from damaging his body, people filled bamboo tubes with rice and threw them into the river. Later, in order to express their respect and remembrance for Qu Yuan, people would fill bamboo tubes with rice and throw them into the river to commemorate him on this day. This is the origin of the earliest rice dumpling in my country - the "tube rice dumpling". 2. Drive away the dragon. There is such a record in "Chuxueji": During the Jianwu period of the Han Dynasty, a Changsha man dreamed of a man at night who claimed to be Sanlu Doctor (Qu Yuan's official name), who said to him: "The things you offered sacrifices to were all stolen by the dragon in the river. From now on, you can wrap them with mugwort leaves and tie them with five-colored silk threads. Dragons are most afraid of these two things." So, people began to wrap millet with "cattail leaves" to make "jiaoshu", which was passed down from generation to generation and gradually developed into China's Dragon Boat Festival food. 3. Praying for a child "Zongzi" is homophonic to "zhongzi", which means having a child. Therefore, eating zongzi also means praying for a child. |
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